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The Domino Theory was a theory in which Eisenhower believed if one country fell to communism the rest would as well, just like dominos. -
intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War, was a conference involving several nations that took place in Geneva, Switzerland -
He was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam, and then served as President of South Vietnam until he was captured and assassinated during the 1963 military coup -
authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia -
LBJ send troops to Vietnam in 1965 in response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident of August 2 and 4, 1964. -
The Tet Offensive was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. -
A company of American soldiers brutally killed most of the people—women, children and old men—in the village of My Lai -
a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops -
Nixon announced his decision to launch American forces into Cambodia with the special objective of capturing COSVN -
the killings of four and wounding of nine other unarmed Kent State University students by the Ohio National Guard -
It started around noon when around 400 construction workers and around 800 office workers attacked around 1,000 demonstrators affiliated with the student strike of 1970 -
Infuriated, President Nixon ordered plans drawn up for retaliatory bombings of North Vietnam. Linebacker II was the result. -
a peace treaty signed to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War -
a congressional resolution designed to limit the U.S. president's ability to initiate or escalate military actions abroad -
the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong